Cut recycling to once a month

The city has proposed a price increase for recycling pickup. With all the stuff"that we now cannot put in our recycle bin, the bin will have less than half of what it previously needed. Rather than raise our rate, why doesn't the city just pickup the recycle bin once per month rather than every other week?

Bill Traver,

Las Cruces

The man behind the curtain

"The man" sadly was in everyone's view for two years during his presidential campaign. I refer to Donald Trump. We see his lack of ethics more clearly every day. We should take off the blinders of partisanship and see the damage his behavior has caused to this nation.

After WWII ended, this nation was proud. We had partnered with other countries and won the fight against fascism. The U.S. entered the war effort - late - but its assistance helped end the war; a joint effort of the "Allies". Remember that name .

In only 18 months, "The man" has alienated most of the countries with whom the U.S. worked during WWII. He ends calls to world leaders with insults.

Behind every day's Twitter rants, there is a man whose life's passion is making money. Absent is any commitment to past agreements with world powers. Absent is any knowledge of how his own government works, its history or the history of the nations with which we have had generations of interaction.

A Trump supporter might say, "So what?" Take the recent Wall Street rollercoaster for example. In my opinion, the financial industry might as well be housed in a casino. However, investment in our bridges, streets, airports; in other words, infrastructure, is affected by financial institutions. Pension funds and IRAs are affected. We are now in a global economy, unlike 150 years ago when we were isolated. Now we're in what some term a trade war with China because of Trump's erratic tantrums.

Greeted with cheers when WWII ended, at present our traditional "allies" - Great Britain, Canada, France and Australia - are holding Mr. Trump at arms' length because there is no trust in the U.S.A. We need to bring down the curtain on "the man".

Violet Cauthon

Las Cruces

Spaceship display an inconvenience

So for the next six months people are going to be majorly inconvenienced by the closure of the west entrance/exit to City Hall, because of the display of a Virgin Galactic spaceship replica. The only other entrance/exit that can be used is the main library entrance. Cars coming and going to City Hall and the library will now be congested at the library entrance. I'd like to know the name of the city bureaucrat who came up with this bad idea.

As for the replica display itself, it only serves as a constant reminder to taxpayers of the money pit boondoggle called Spaceport America in Sierra County. Please reopen the west entrance/exit to City Hall and the library and move the spaceship closer to the city dump.